Automatic Manipulation of Magnetically Actuated Helical Microswimmers in Static Environments.

ABSTRACT: Electromagnetically actuated microswimmers have been widely used in various biomedical applications due to their minor invasive traits and their easy access to confined environments. In order to guide the microswimmers autonomously towards a target, an obstacle-free path must be computed using path planning algorithms, meanwhile a motion controller must be formulated. However, automatic manipulations of magnetically actuated microswimmers are underdeveloped and still are challenging topics. In this paper, we develop an automatic manipulation system for magnetically actuated helical microswimmers in static environments, which mainly consists of a mapper, a path planner, and a motion controller. First, the mapper processes the captured image by morphological transformations and then labels t

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215135 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature